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A good movie - always an excuse to travel, even in the imagination. But you can actually ride in the footsteps of your favorite heroes and enjoy the atmosphere of the legendary movie.

Often, in view of the global film business innovations, we admire the beauty of the place, are the background to a gripping story.
It is clear that at a time when computer technology is helping to create artificial worlds of fantasy only subordinates of their creators and the thickness of the wallet customers. But even the most notorious kibertvortsy draw inspiration from the real world completely.

Harry Potter



Diagon Alley
Filming Locations: Leadenhall
For the filming of Diagon Alley was partially used Leadenhall Market (Leadenhall) in London. This is a huge food market, existing since the Middle Ages to the present day. Its ornately decorated Victorian covered shopping arcades look very impressive. In the first film in the Harry Potter corner shop Leadenhall served as the entrance to the Leaky Cauldron, through which, referring to the right brick wall, you can get into Diagon Alley.



Hogwarts, the field-fly
Filming Locations: Alnwick Castle
For nearly 700 years, the castle owned by the Duke of Northumberland Eniko. This, the 12th of its kind, the owner went to the second largest inhabited castle in Britain. Eniko, which means the farm on the river Ain, first mentioned in chronicles of the XI century, when within a mile of the city wall was assassinated Scottish King Malcolm Canmore. In the gloom of the medieval fortress noticed many directors of feature films: here filming "Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots", "Elizabeth", "Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves" with Kevin Costner and, of course, Harry Potter.



Forbidden Forest
Filming Locations: Black Park, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire
The trees in the thicket of the forest grow so thickly that there reigns even in the twilight of a bright sunny day.



Hogwarts Library
Filming Locations: Bodleian Library, Oxford
Bodleian Library - Library of the University of Oxford, which is contested at the Vatican to be called the oldest in Europe, and the British - the title of the largest book collection UK. 1610 (officially - from 1662) years is entitled to receive legal deposit of all publications produced in the country.



Cabinet McGonagall
Filming Locations: Durham Cathedral
Durham Cathedral Christ, the Virgin Mary and St. Cuthbert (Durham Cathedral) - the UK's first monument to the material entered (along with nearby Durham Castle) in the number of World Heritage sites. It is a pure sample of the Norman Romanesque recension.



Hogsmeade Station
Filming Locations: Goathland Station, North Yorkshire
Hogsmeade Station, which comes Hogwarts - Express, otvozyaschy all students in the school of Witchcraft and Wizardry, was filmed at the station in Goathland, Yorkshire. This small town with a population of barely more than 400 people, is the second in her age railroad in the United Kingdom.



Ministry of Magic
Filming Locations: Great Scotland Yard, Scotland Place
Street near St James Westminster, London, connecting the Northumberland Avenue and Whitehall. The place is known for being the rear entrance to the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service.



Godric's Hollow
Filming Locations: Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire
Charming place close to the city of Bath, Wiltshire, with a small population (just over 1,000). Lacock is a national treasure in England, she is considered one of the oldest places of Great Britain. The construction of many buildings began in the 13th century. Here you can see the house of the parents of Harry Potter and the home of Horace Slughorn.

Avatar



The image of the flying island in the movie "Avatar" is taken from real life. China Hunan province, or rather the mountain Tszyankunchzhu inspired the director to create a fabulous landscape of Pandora. A film crew for a few days photographed mountain Tszyankunchzhu and local landscape Wulingyuan to recreate the heavenly islands and air Pandora.



The film "Avatar" brought glory to Hunan Province, making it an important tourist attraction. Tourists from all over the world come to witness the very flying islands.



Place is famous for its quartzite cliffs up to 1000 meters. The highest peaks Wulingyuan reach a height of more than 3 km in altitude.



On Mount Tianmen Mountain, which literally translates as "Heaven's Gate", at an altitude of 1430 meters built glass suspension bridge. This bridge, 60 meters in length, is laid almost along the very top. Because of its location, it serves as a viewing platform, which offers a wonderful view of the surroundings. Glass bridge constantly maintained in complete purity, resulting in tourists it is hard to get used to the feeling of emptiness beneath his feet.

Sanctum



Cave Esa-ala.
Filming Locations: Aquismón, Mexico.

The main backdrop for the story of the film Sanctum were caves. The film speaks of a cave in New Guinea - cave Esa-ala. But, in fact, real shooting "Sanctum" took place in a cave or Swallows Sotano de las Golondrinas, which is not unknown among the cave explorers and adventurers and is located in Mexico city Aquismón. In its depth Cave of Swallows in Mexico is among the ten deepest caves in the world.



Cave of Swallows has the shape of the bottle, "throat" which - the most impenetrable plot. It is because of its structure the cave does not seem so deep in fact. And in fact, the depth of the cave Swallows (abyss) reaches about 376 meters.



Lord of the Rings



Hobbiton
Filming Locations: Matamata, New Zealand

Everyone is familiar with the fact that the trilogy "The Lord of the Rings" was filmed in New Zealand.
Shire was established on private farms in the vicinity of the small town of Matamata, where the crew spent almost four months. After shooting scenery decided to disassemble. It wanted to land and home.



After the release of the first film, "Lord of the Rings. Fellowship of the Ring "in Matamata began a pilgrimage of tourists. The city therefore has received the second, unofficial name - Hobbiton.



Mount Olympus, New Zealand.

Fellowship of the Ring is hiding here from the black crows of Saruman.



Mangavero River, New Zealand.

Gollum catch fish here.

Star Wars



Filming Locations: Tatooine

A small town in the south of Tunisia, the administrative center of Tataouine Governorate. It is here that director George Lucas filmed some scenes of the famous stories.



Beach



Filming Locations: Maya Bay, Thailand.

Maya Bay - a stunningly beautiful place, which protect the 100-meter high cliffs. The bay has a number of beaches, mostly small.



Series Lost and Pearl Harbor



Filming Locations: Oahu Island (Hawaii)

This is one of the largest of the Hawaiian Islands, there is the state capital of Honolulu. It is no exaggeration to say that Oahu - a paradise in the Pacific Ocean.



Shooting the crash took place on the beach Mokuleya. In these same places, at the time, part of the scenes filmed "Jurassic Park».





Spiderman



Filming Locations: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

The interiors of this museum in the film is a research institute where Peter Parker was bitten by a spider with altered DNA. This is one of the largest museums in the Western US. Its collection includes 35 million various exhibits, which cover 4, 5 billion years of history. Note that inside the museum were shooting some scenes of the sixth season of the sitcom "How I Met Your Mother».



Daily Bugle

Peter Parker is known to be moonlighting as a photographer for the newspaper Daily Bugle. A revision of publication was in the famous New York-iron house on Fifth Avenue, which is one of the symbols of the United States. The building is also present in the movie "Godzilla."